Ticket printer and register.



N0. 891,521. PATENT'ED JUNE 23, 1908;

0. A. BROWN. TIGKET PRINTER AND REGISTER.

APPLIO TION FILED AUG. 1

A 906 4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908 0. A. BROWN, I I TICKET PRINTER AND REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1908,

4 SHEETS-SHEET 3 No. 891,521. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

0. A. BROWN.

TIGKET PRINTER AND REGISTER;

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 4,

l and registering mechanism, it is impossible to -illustrated the preferred embodiments of my "illustrated in Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a horizontal sec- Uivinn *si'rarns raprnn'r OFFICE.

ORRA BROWN, 01" \VIOHI'lA, KANSAS.

TICKET PRINTER AND REGISTER.

Application filed August 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, mm A. Bnown, a citil zen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Printers and ltegistors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a mechanism for simultaneously printing, registering, severing, and delivering, or simultaneously severing and delivering a ticket on a single actuation of an operating handle or foot -operate l treadle.

My improved device is particularly in tended to; use in connection with theaters, cir cuses, street carnivals, and the like,enabling the ticket seller to m .nually print and register each ticket sold, the company being sure of securing the full. receipts because of the impossibility of tampering with the device, especially the printing and registering mechanism.

Another object of the improvement is to make the machine as simple as possible and hence reduce the liability of derangement of the parts to a minimum.

By using my novel form of ticket printing print a ticket without at the same time registering the act, consequently an infallible check is hadupon the number of tickets p. "nted and sold.

On the accompanying drawings I have invention and therein like reference characters refer to the (B1110 parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the ticket printer and register, with a. part of the easlng over the register broken away; Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the device tion just beneath the top cover, the cap for the register being shown broken away; Fig. 4 is a substantially horizontal sectional View of aport'ion of the device on line 44 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is avertical section on line 5-5 of Fig. 4, as viewed in the direction indicated by the arrows; Fig. 6sh0ws a means for automatically reversing the feed of the ribbon which passes beneath the rin ting plate; and Fig. 71s a detail .view of tlie r chet mechanism for the feed rollers.

As illustrated in Fig. 1, my improved ticket printer and register includes a metallic casing 60, a cover 11 hingtd thereto and adapted to be locked in closed position by the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1908.

1906. Serial No. 329,737

lock 12 indicated in dotted lines. At its forward end, the easing .10 is equipped with a. discharge chute or receptacle 13 which is adapted to receive the printed ticket, after it has been severed from a roll ol paper on which the tickets are printed, and from which the purclniser receives the ticket. At the rear end of the. device are two arms 14 having a removable rod or pin 15, on which is'rotatably mounted a roll of paper 16, which constitutes the. supply l'or the tickets, and proaetuating handle or knob 18. On one side of the casing there is provided a register 19, which will be fully described below.

The paper as it is unwound from the roll 16 is passed through a. slot 21 in the rear end of the casing and through a flat guiding tube 22 to a pair of feed rollers 23 and 24. The former is mounted. upon an axle 25 which, in turn, is rotatably mounted at its ends in two arms '26 pivoted to. the two inner sides of the casing at 27, the arms and roller being pulled down to o )erative position and into engagement with t 1e top surface of the paper 20 by spiral springs 28 fastened at 29 to the sides of the casing. The lower feed roll 24 is fixed upon a shaft 30 rotatably mounted at 31 in apertures in the sides of the casing 10. As will be observed. in Fig. 2, the lower portion of feed roller 24 extends slightly through a slot 32 in the bottom metallic plate 33 of the casing, the purpose of this construction being to permit the operator when he has placed a fresh sup )ly roll of paper 16 on the spindle 15 to feed manually between the. feed rollers to the printing and severing mechanism. Paper 20 upon leaving these feed rollers passes through a chute 34 and is guided on to a bed or base plate 35 faced on its u ,)per surface with a rubber or other more or less soft )ad 36, the paper being held firmly upon the piate 35 b a pair of spring fingers 37, one end of .whic 1, is fixed at 38 to the top surface of the chute 34. Upon leaving this bed plate the pa er passes through another guide 39 to the de iver receptacle 13, in so doing passing througi an aperture 40 in the front end of the casing.

The printing mechanism comprises the following parts: At 4i is pivoted a broad lever 42 having up-turhed edges 43, the lever being normally pulled upwardly by a pair of spiral eeting through an aperture in the top of the easing is a rod l7 having at rtsupper end an the samesprings 44 attached at their lower ends 45 to the lever and at their upper ends 46 to pins 47 fixed on the inner sides of the casing; The lower end of the operating rod 17 mentioned above, ispivoted'or hinged at 48 to a pair of rip-standing ears or lugs 49 fixed to the upper surface of the lever. On the under surface of the lever 42 at its front downwardly bent end I provide a printing plate 50 having on its under surface any form f type, or the like, to print the tickets. In order to rovide inking means for, this plate, I use a ribbon 51, like those employed on typewriters, and a 1pair of spools 52 .and 53, upon which the rib on is Wound and'from which it is paid out. These spools are referably rotatably mountedin the upwar y projecting ears 54 and at one end each spool has a ratohetwheel 55 and 56, respectively. To prevent a too rapi'd paying'out onunwinding of the ribbon fronts ool 52, Iuse a flat spring 57 to bear u on t e teeth of ratchet 55. To feed the ri bon forwardly so as to wind it upon spool its operating handle,- the ratchet wheel will be turned slightly so as to feed the ribbon a small amount, the latter passing over the face of the rinting plate 50 and through slots 61 in the flavor, as will be clearly apparent from an inspection of Fig. 2.

The register 19, which may be of any of the usual types, is mounted on the outer surface of one side of the casing 10 and has an arm 62 passing through a slot 63 in the side of the interior where it is pushed downwardly by the printing lever when the latter is operated by its handle 18, the arm 62 being normally pulled upwardly byt his spring 6 1. To prevent the operator of the machine from having access tothe register, l preferably cover it with a casing 65 having a window to display the numbers on the register, the casing or cover being fastened to the main casing 10 by screws 65 which are capable of manipulation or unscrewing only from the inside of the large casing" 10, so that the register is entirely within the control of the holder of the key to the casings lock. At the front end of printing lever 42 is fastened a knife blade 66,.its lower edge being preferably int-lined, and .to cor") erate with this knife blade I mount on block 35 a cutting member or cooperating blade 67, the latter being pivoted at 68 and forced to its outermost )osition at its opposite. end by a rod 69 pushedforwardly by a spring 70 abutting at one end against a lixcd stop 71 and at its other end against a collar 72 on the rod, the latter having a sliding movement in sto '7 ing lover is pushed downwardly, the end of blade 66 nearest the pivot first brought \Vhon the print-- into contact with the cutting edge of mem- Y ber 67 and further downward movement of the blade 66 causes a shearing action, whereby a ticket is cut off, the other end of block 67. moving in slightly against. the action of spring 70.

In order to turn the lower feed roll upon the upward movement of printing lever 42 I affix to the shaft 30 of roller 24 two spaced ratchet wheels with oppositely disposed lever, I connect the two by a link 7'9, the.

length offwhich may readily be adjusted by the thumb nut 80. 82 to the side of the casing and is pressed downwardly by a leaf spring 83, the free end of the lever having a tooth 84 adapted to cooperate with the teeth of ratchet 74fthe free end of lever 81 also having a transverse pin 85 c0-acting.with the-inclined or cam surface 78 of the actuating member 7 5.,

The operation of this device is as follows: Assuming a roll of paper has been placed on the spindle 15 and threaded between the feeding rollers on to the bed plate, by pressing upon the handle 18 and pushing the printin lever 42 down, the ribbon is first fed forwardly a small amount, the pawl 58 en- A lever 81 is pivoted at gaging the teeth of ratchet 56 and turning I the same slightly. Continued downwarr movement of the printing lever causes an impression to be made it )on the top surface of the strip of paper20, t e actuation of the register throughlever 62,-and the cutting off or severing of a previously printed ticket by means of the co-acting knife edges of the parts 66 and 67, this previously printed ticket dropping into the receptacle 13-from which it may be taken by the purchaser. will thus be apparent that the purchaser does not secure the ticket which is printed at the time he pays his money and when the operathe handle lR'is released, the printing lever and attached parts movc upwardly under the influence of springs +14 and in so doing,

the actuating member 75 feeds the roller 24 around a delinite amount, its pawl 76 having ridden over one or more of the teeth of ratchet 73 during the downward movement of the printing lever. in this manner, the strip of paper is fed forwardly ready for an- -otl1cr actuation of the? printing, registering,

and severing mechanism. in order to prevent the wheel 24 from turning except at the proper time, the tooth 8-1- of the lever 81 cugagcs the teeth of ratchet 7i, and it will be obvious that this tooth must be (.lisengagcd before the roller 24 can be turned forwardly, this disengagement being accomplished by the inclined surface 78 of the actuating member 75 riding under the pin ot' lever 81 so as to raise the t 'th H-t during th downward movement of the printing lever.

In Fig. ti .l have illustrated an automatic mechanism for reversing the feed of the ribbon when practically all of it has accumulatcd on one of the spools. in this modification l employ the printing lever 42, the printing plate .30, riobon 51, the two spools 52 and 53, and two ratchet wheels so and H7. I: also employ the pair of levers NS and st) joined by a rod 90 having allixed to its central part a V-shapcd wedge til, with which cooperates a spring 92 affixed to the side of the casing at 93 and having its free end 94 V-sl'iaped, as shown, and adapted to co-act with the eorrespomlingly' shaped block 91. At its lower end each one of these levers 8S and 89 has a pivoted pawl 92 and a roller 93. When one of these pawls is in engagement with its ratchet wheel, the other pawl clears. the teeth of its i'atchet wheel, the parts being held in such position by the end 04 of spring t)? engaging one face pl the wedge block 91. As the printing lever 42 is moved ,upwardly and do'w'nwardly, the ribbon will be fed along, as will be readily understood, and when sullicient ribbon has accumulated on the spool 553, for example, the roller 93 which rides on the surface of the riblon, is pushed outwardly sullicient to cause. the block 01, together with the two lovers and connecting rod, to pass to the other side of the V-shaped end 94 of spring J2 so that the pawl of lever 88 is thrown into engagement with its ratchet wheel and the pawl of lever 89 is pushed out of engagement with its wheel, whereupon the feeding of the. ribbon is reversed when the )rinting plate and lever are removed upwardly and downwardly.

It is obvious from the foregoing description that my invention is not limited to a device that )rints, registers, severs, and dclivers a ticket, but is equally ellicient where only severing and delivering ot' the ticket is required, and therefore when a continuous strip cf printed tickets is used and each ticket is provided with a number the printing and registering mochansim of my device may be entirely omitted and the device. constructed with simply the cutting and deliver-- ing parts; with the possible exception of the use of the re ister in case the printed tickets are not num ered.

To those skilled in the artit will be apiarent that. various mechanical changes may,

at made in the structure described without departing from the substance of my invention asset forth in the lollowmg claims.

I claim.- 1. In a device of the character described, the combination ol an mclosmg casing having an aperture ther through, a lever, means to actuate said ltVt a printing plate on said printed and a previously-printed ticket dcivered through said aperture substantially as described.

3. in a device of the characterdescribed, the combination of an inclosing casing having an aperture thcretln'ouglua lever, means to actuate said lever, a printing plate on said lever, an inking ribbon for said. printing plate, rollers or s'iools for said ribbon, means to feed one of said rollers or spools to turn the same a small amount on each actuation of said lever to advance the ribbon, a bed or base plate, l'e'ed rollers to operate on a strip of paper, means to actuate said feed rollers, means to sever the strip of )aper into tickets, and means to register eacli )rinting operation of said printing plate, whereby on each actuat ion of said lever a ticket is printed and a prit-\-'iously-printe1l ticket delivered through said aperture substantially as described.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination of an inclosing casing having an aperture therethrough, a printing plate, a bed or base plate, means'to actuate said printing plate toward and from said bed or base plate, an inking ribbon passing over the face of said )rinting plate, rollers or spools for said rib on, means to feed one. of said rollers'or spools to turn the same a small amount on each actuation of said printing plate, means to control the opera; tion of said spools whereby when the one being fed has been filled with the ribbon the controlling means, will shift the feeding mechanism to advance'the other spoolstep.

by step,'feed rollers to operate on a strip of paper, means to actuatesaid feed rollers, and

means to sever the strip of paper into tickets, whereby on each actuation of'said'lever a ticket is printed and a prev ously-printed ticket delivered through said aperture.

4. in a device of the character described, the combination of'a printing plate, a bed or base plate, means to actuate said printing plate toward and from said bed or base plate, an inking ribbon passing over the face of said printing plate, a pair of rotatable rollers or spools for said rib )Oll, a ratchet wheel fixed to and rotatable with each of said rollers or spools, a pair of lovers, a pawl connected &

with each of said levers, a rod connecting said levers, a beveled member on said rod, and a beveled spring cooperating With said i beveled member whereby when. one of said 1 rollers or spools has been filled With'Said ribbon the operation of the ribbon -feeding l mechanism is reversed, substantially as described. V l

5. In a device of the character described, I the combination of a lever, a printing plate .E on said lever, a pair of feed rollers for a strip 1 paper, a casing for the said arts, said cas- -.ing having an aperture throng tion of one of said feed rollers that it may be manually turned 'rom the ex- 15 terior of said casing to feed in or advance a strip of paper, substantially as described.

which a porrotrudes so ORRA' A. BR ()WN.

\Vitnesses:

C. H. BRooKs,

M. A. PARKER. 

